Red Devil mkII - The Journey Continues

[seangti]

**** FOR SALE **** $12K


Hi,

As Anthony had decided to part with the Red Devil, I saw it an opportunity to buy the car for regular track work.

I'd been teetering with the idea of buying it over a few months when he first announced selling. I gave in to the idea after a track day where an RX7 and GTR punched the wall. Plus I have plans on lots of track time this year, so rather than dump money into the current silver one, thought it's money better spent sitting in an already exceptionally well built car. I'd initially considered it as a daily, but rather than soften it up and detune to make it more streetable for my requirements, I thought it'd be a waste of the hard work that's gone in to it, so will keep flying the track oriented theme.

On the immediate horizon is getting baseline performance figures; 0-100kph, rolling speed intervals, lap times at he local tracks and quarter mile. I'll share that once compiled.

RE mods, before track time next weekend I will soften up the front sway bar to dial out some understeer / promote more movement in the rear. Though will be replacing the coilovers in the next month or two, likely to H&R or KW's. I also an expect an LSD will be needed, have done some research and likely to be wavetrac, will get some track time in it first before committing.

Build on the car when I took delivery.


Enough waffling, I'm now sporting two Polo GTI's.




Current Spec - Nov 2017
VAGAutowerks custom tune

3” cold air feed ducting
Modshack VTDA with custom cold air 3” ducting inlet with K&N pod filter
Custom alloy 3" MAF housing
Custom 3" turbo inlet pipe
Removed June 2015 Billet Turbo Ko3s Hybrid turbo with ceramic ball bearing conversion with Forge adjustable spring turbo actuator - yellow spring
FTG K04-001 with upsized wheels (62.3mm compressor, 46.4mm turbine wheels) with Forge adjustable spring turbo actuator. refer page 26+ for info and pics
Forge Motorsport 007P closed loop diverter valve with yellow spring rated 15-23psi
SEAT Sport intercooler - dual pass core
Custom pipe work - 2" hotside, 2.5" coldside to TB
Removed November 2014 ATP turbo hiflow exhaust manifold HPC coated - as it cracked. Running standard Manifold.
Custom stainless steel 3” dump pipe with 4" expansion chamber & Magnaflow 100 CEL catalytic converter
Custom 3" stainless steel catback exhaust with Magnaflow resonator & 6" round muffler with 42DD 4" outlet
Phenolic intake manifold gasket

ECS lightweight crank pulley
42 Draft Design Ultimate catch can with Morosso exhaust valve and PCV delete - currently removed
SAI Pump, N249 & N112 delete
Wahler 71c thermostat
Genesis II 500cc injectors
Bosch 3 bar FPR
APR high performance in tank fuel pump
Verdict Motorsport O2J aluminium shift bracket bushings
42 Draft Design aluminium shift cable bushings
Deka lightweight ETX14 battery 12lbs 5.4kg
Braille aluminum battery mount
NKG BKR7EKT spark plugs
Superpro sports dog bone bush
Vibra-Technics Gearbox mount
Vibra-Technics Engine mount
Audi A3 custom drive shaft
Sachs 228mm duty clutch plate
Sachs clutch pressure plate
ECS 14lbs light weight flywheel
Wavetrac LSD and rebuilt gearbox April 2016

Wiechers steel front strut brace
Ultra Racing front lower control arm brace
Ultra Racing rear lower brace
Ultra Racing middle lower brace
Whiteline adjustable front sway bar 22mm
Whiteline adjustable rear sway bar 20mm
Whiteline rear shim kit +3mm toe in reduction
H&R Coilovers (20-50mm lower) with Kmac adjustable camber and castor tops
Superpro anti-lift poly rear control arm bushes

Brembo 4 pot front brake calipers
QFM A1RM front
DBA 4000 312mm front slotted rotors
Audi TT rear brake calipers with VW Bora V5 All-wheel drive brake calipers
Lucas/TRW rear brake pads
RDA 256x20mm ventilated rear slotted rotors
HEL braided brake lines

Track: Enkei RPF1 17x8, 35ET, 15.5 lbs 7kg
225/45/17 Yoko AO50 Soft

Daily: Audi TT 17"
Federal RSRR215/40R17

MK5 Golf alloy steering wheel inserts
SWG air vent pod
Prosport Evo electronic boost gauge
Prosport Evo electronic EGT gauge
Prosport Evo electronic air fuel gauge

Ford Focus RS bonnet vents
APR Performance GTC-200 48" SCCA Spec. carbon fiber rear wing
Rear bumper valance delete with JMF alloy bumper diffusers

Sharan antenna
Badgless upper honeycomb grille
Fog lamp delete
Side skirt delete


Lap times (Official - natsoft):
Lakeside, QLD: 1:03.18 (on old turbo at 22psi, RE55s tyres)
- 1:03.2 (FTG turbo at 16 psi, V70 tyres)
- 1:02.99 (FTG turbo at 16 psi, V70 tyres, Wavetrac LSD)
- 1:02.86 (FTG turbo at 16 psi, Federal RSRR tyres, Wavetrac LSD)

Queensland Raceway
Sprint configuration - 1:00.596 29/09/18
Clubman configuration - 1:04.372 29/09/18
National circuit - 1:28.113 29/09/18
Sportsman Circuit - 1:01.913 29/09/18

19 Sept 2020
Sprint configuration - 1:00.274
Clubman configuration - 1:04.082
National circuit - 1:27.58
Sportsman Circuit - 1:01.677
Wakefield, NSW: 1:12.4 (on old turbo, RE55s tyres)

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[grandturismo]

Looking forward to seeing this car on the track Sean.
Congrats on the purchase and I'm sure the car will be something pretty special when your finished with it

[VWindahouse]

So much win coming soon Nice pics too!

[nat225]

[team_v]

Can't wait to see this thing on Saturday's Happy Laps.

[jasn78]

Cant wait to see qtr mile time sean. I hope you meam wbank and not just gtech??

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[seangti]

Cant wait to see qtr mile time sean. I hope you meam wbank and not just gtech??

Yup, willowbank mate, can't achieve bragging rights without a time slip

Though never done drags, so if I suck at it you may never know I'd tried, lol. Nah, I'll share my failures.

[jasn78]

Im sure u will be fine remember low psi front high psi rear and slip ckutch against handbrake to control tyre spin.

Also dont worry about the lights go anytime after green

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[jasn78]

Or just use me as the driver pmsl

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[seangti]

Had some track time at Queensland Raceway on the weekend, unfortunately an intercooler pipe blew off on the 3rd lap, but that was enough to get a feel for the car. The power and brakes are sweet, so much braking power from the Brembo brakes. Was pulling over -1g, whereas with the standard gear maxes at around -0.9g. That’s quite a difference. Accelerating, again is an extra couple of 10th’s in terms of g’s. I’m yet to run any acceleration times, but 80-120km/h is low to mid 3’s for 3rd gear.

Cornering, now that was interesting, in short it was nervous and unbalanced compared to my other car. Corner speed was down compared to the silver car too. I had adjusted the rear way bar to have it on medium, leaving the front on soft. I think I could run the rear on hard. It was nervous under brakes and mid corner, lacking feel. All of which I was aware of having had a steer at lakeside some months back. I put it done to the FK AK coilovers, I feel they are under damped, resulting in a pogo / porpoise effect. I’ve now ordered H&R coilovers.

RE Coilovers, I’ve had a preference for the H&R’s for some time, they use a monotube, inverted bilstein strut so I know quality is top notch. They aren’t rebound or damper adjustable, just height. I had also been looking at KW V3’s and KW Clubsports. If sourcing the gear locally, the price was much the same for H&R and KW’s, in which case I’d have gone KW Clubsports. But I’ve chosen to import the H&R’s, which are roughly half the price to sourcing locally. I’d have preferred to source locally, but the price difference was too much. The KW’s sourced in Europe versus local are only marginally cheaper. For all the negative comments of the H&R’s about firm ride, I’ve found as positive’s for my application. Lacking the adjustability isn’t so much an issue, as I can make minor adjustments with the swaybars. Plus the price difference covers a set of semi slicks, so my logic is H&R’s with semi slicks would result in better lap times than KW’s on street tyres.

That’s my rant, suspension should be here in 3 weeks.

[team_v]

Shame you only got a few laps in but hopefully you can give it a burl at Lakeside in July with the new suspension.

Does the red devil currently run Federal 595 RSR's?

[seangti]

Shame you only got a few laps in but hopefully you can give it a burl at Lakeside in July with the new suspension.

Does the red devil currently run Federal 595 RSR's?

Yes and yes.

[team_v]

Yes and yes.

So what semislicks would you be looking at getting?
I have heard the Advan Neova AD08R's are a pretty decent tyre.

[seangti]

So what semislicks would you be looking at getting?
I have heard the Advan Neova AD08R's are a pretty decent tyre.

Yup, a near certainty is the new yokohama's AD08's from the research amd feedback I've come across. Price wise for the 17" isn't unreasonable either. Alan (Granturismo) spoke highly of them after last weekends HUGE culling of his PB at lakeside. With suspension and tyres, I'm expecting at least 64's lap at lakeside in this car. I got 66.0 in the silver one on semi's so can't see it being a stretch.